18th June 2018:

Frederik and his team treated more than 100 grapevine plants against a fungal disease with biodegradable nanocarriers. The interview from the vineyard was recently broadcasted on the radiostation BR2 and is available via the BR2 website (in German, minutes 9:00-14:20)

May 22nd 2018:

May 2018:

"Plastik, gut verträglich." The research on biodegradable polymers of the "Functional Polymers" group was highlighted in the Max Planck Forschung (in German). English version will be online in the upcoming issue.

26.1.2017 Congratulations:

23.1.2017 Congratulations:

Dr. Keti Piradashvili defended her PhD with the title "Biodegradable Protein Nanocarriers for Drug Delivery"

10.10. 2016:

Seong-Min was selected for the Materials Horizons Community Board!

Congratulations!

Greta Becker has won the Oral Award Contest 1st prize for her talk "Adhesive or Stealth Properties? The Versatility of Poly(phosphoester)s", sponsored by Springer. The talk was held at the International Conference on Advanced Polymers, Biomaterials, Bioengineering & Nano Drug Delivery (APA'16) in Flic en Flac, Maurtitius on September 5-7, 2016.

14.6.2016: Congratulations!

Habilitation

Dr. Frederik Wurm has successfully completed his Habilitation with the title " Molecular Control of Interactions: Poly( phosphoester)s and Smart Nanocarriers". The habilitation lecture entitled "Sequence-Controlled Polymers" was held on April 6, 2016. The subsequent inaugural lecture on "Multifunctional polymers for precise adjustable molecular interactions" was celebrated in the auditorium of the MPIP on May 11, 2016.

In this interdisciplinary BMBF project together with the "Institut für sozial-ökologische Forschung (ISOE) GmbH" in Frankfurt/Main (D) the department of "Physical Chemistry of Polymers" will be responsible for the development and assessment of plastic alternatives and biodegradable materials (group of Dr. Frederik Wurm).